With their weekday heads, the trio Fujiya & Miyagi probably doesn't even enter the hippest clubs. Still, the hipsters in the club were dancing to the strong 12 inches of the English trio. They simply stayed, because even when they were met with enthusiastic reviews from NME and Pitchfork, the two kept their jobs as painters and music teachers of children who are difficult to educate. With their
… debut album Transparent Things, the trio released one of the best albums of 2006. Live it turned out that the group could not quite live up to it. Performances were spotless but also somewhat colorless. Fujiya & Miyagi's predilection for the repetitive sound of 'krautrock' groups from the seventies still resonates on this second album. In addition, there is also room at Lightbulbs for civilized funk and rippling indietronica. David Best's hypothermic vocals sound rather flat in the long run, which is one of the reasons that Lightbulbs threatens to slide down to the level of musical wallpaper. The quality of the surprising debut is unfortunately not achieved with Lightbulbs. (PdK)more
